Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab24c06a981afb35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-10 13:32:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 763e3f1a68df8112ee401566f39950c7 SHA-1: 7c67fab397e18bbb9f5cce9561b36503367614c5 SHA-256: ab24c06a981afb3508abdcc5e76e984e30bdabd781408fd39124caff486c29d5
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, supports this assessment. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution indicate a lure for potentially unwanted software or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 5

  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f50791ee6---56301416325.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/37553956829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/88252727907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smart.sut.ac.th/tsme/src/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32240871735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae2e748d38b50c0efc328fcc77ae33c3/tijidadovewigaxotaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anpo.vn/upload/files/58604243850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7emvclpc29dg5nmos0q5jh16t1/kaxegidawojotanifowew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://termosystem.pl/userfiles/file/kemifikinolurebufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expobar.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/bediviwemapefalimugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://club-integra.ru/userfiles/file/bovolorasexomilejadapirom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4152faa85d4cf812ae523952c46be9b1/lovevumovowopevizobuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unchiulmihai.ro/files/fckeditor/file/fobunamezadetolotimisonoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e2ea4c2b3---18320681454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sloplast.com/userfiles/files/dasotiraxejazaxifuzul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kibledergisi.net/resimler/files/nabunazajodamumonetag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadrozmerne-sklo.cz/uploads/wujejanopikukuviso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soportedevida.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30317910988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhsuasolieu.com/media/files/49435089202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-sinpro.com/upload/files/sediga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bi-kiesabbau.de/cmsimple/images/file/37468986135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/vedisosupaxipaduxajoginut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coral-travel66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40735072927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=vidmate+app+download+free+androidPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2EF 10548 bytes
SHA-256: ccb1ab5f319572662f7ee007a869a557027b3c7f402ac170055bb97d6167b7f4
font_02_sfnt_off0000eaec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAEC 17040 bytes
SHA-256: 80f47497134622703fbfec051919257eefbade146c7a9dfc3dcee99d14f8cc30